Poisoned Slice
Bionic Poster
SystemicAnomaly
Bionic Poster
Current favorites (well written, clever dialogue):
Modern Family (8.4 on IMDb, 10 seasons and still going strong)
The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (8.7 on IMDb, 2nd season finally started earlier this month)
- creator = Amy Sherman-Palladino (also known for Gilmore Girls and Roseanne)
Blasts from the past (great dialogue with excellent ensemble casts):
Sports Night (1998-2000 from the genius mind of Aaron Sorkin)
- Sadly, only 2 seasons for SN cuz Sorkin wanted to focus his creative juices on West Wing
Spin City (1996-2002) -- winner of 4 Golden Globes (38 award nomination)
- Later seasons with Charlie Sheen were quite good; seasons starring Michael J Fox were even better
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Modern Family (8.4 on IMDb, 10 seasons and still going strong)
The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (8.7 on IMDb, 2nd season finally started earlier this month)
- creator = Amy Sherman-Palladino (also known for Gilmore Girls and Roseanne)
Blasts from the past (great dialogue with excellent ensemble casts):
Sports Night (1998-2000 from the genius mind of Aaron Sorkin)
- Sadly, only 2 seasons for SN cuz Sorkin wanted to focus his creative juices on West Wing
Spin City (1996-2002) -- winner of 4 Golden Globes (38 award nomination)
- Later seasons with Charlie Sheen were quite good; seasons starring Michael J Fox were even better
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Sentinel
Bionic Poster
I like him but his accent is often quite fake for someone coming from a rich, doctor family.
Otherwise he is funny.
The Indian jokes are quite unoriginal. Wish they could have used a bit of brain there.
Gary Duane
G.O.A.T.
@Sentinel
Writers for the Doctor in the House episodes were Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Bernard McKenna.
Just checked writers for Doctor in the House: Chapman and Cleese, among others. No wonder the writing was so good.
Writers for the Doctor in the House episodes were Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Bernard McKenna.
Just checked writers for Doctor in the House: Chapman and Cleese, among others. No wonder the writing was so good.
Sentinel
Bionic Poster
Ok, noted with thanks.@Sentinel
Writers for the Doctor in the House episodes were Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Bernard McKenna.
Just checked writers for Doctor in the House: Chapman and Cleese, among others. No wonder the writing was so good.
I do find the British accent a bit difficult to follow (not the Yes Minister accent but the common one), so i'll typically only watch a UK movie or tv show if i can find subtitles for it.
helixx
Hall of Fame
SystemicAnomaly
Bionic Poster
@Sentinel
Writers for the Doctor in the House episodes were Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Bernard McKenna.
Just checked writers for Doctor in the House: Chapman and Cleese, among others. No wonder the writing was so good.
You talkin 'bout the British TV series way back in the late 60s or early 70s? I recall watching a show by that name on PBS (KQED in SF) back when. A bit more risque that anything on US network TV during that era. I'm fairly I saw one of the characters "flipping the bird" (middle finger salute) in one episode. Had never seen anything like that on TV up to that time.
Harry_Wild
G.O.A.T.
dropshotlob
New User
Impractical jokers.
Sentinel
Bionic Poster
Who the 'ell is Apu. I don't remember such a character.Interesting that keyboard warriors are ok with Raj but Apu had to go
But i did not care for Raj's sister. Her accent was too fake, too stereotypical.
Harry_Wild
G.O.A.T.
Harry_Wild
G.O.A.T.
I am enjoying "2 Broke Girls" sitcom on Amazon Prime. Light funny jokes, good for a laugh.
Vcore89
Talk Tennis Guru
For me, it's gotta be Curb and apparently @Mike Bulgakov agrees.
Larry has to actually apologize for how insincere his apology was and, goes for another profound but insincere apology.
"Can I apologize for the apology?"
Larry has to actually apologize for how insincere his apology was and, goes for another profound but insincere apology.
"Can I apologize for the apology?"
Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
I agree.For me, it's gotta be Curb and apparently @Mike Bulgakov agrees.
Larry has to actually apologize for how insincere his apology was and, goes for another profound but insincere apology.
"Can I apologize for the apology?"
AntonZweck
Rookie
Peacemaker
SystemicAnomaly
Bionic Poster
Just finished season 1 of Shrinking, a dramatic comedy featuring Jason Segal & Harrison Ford. Highly entertaining. Especially love Ford's character.
Lol I'm really laughing out loud watching "Hot in Cleveland" Season 4 Episode 20 (Cleveland Indians).
Jane Leeves (as Joy) did an excellent Indian English accent. It's really great! I then bursted out in laughter when Joy's friend Melanie even tried the Indian accent (not as good but it's too hilarious!!!)
Jane Leeves (as Joy) did an excellent Indian English accent. It's really great! I then bursted out in laughter when Joy's friend Melanie even tried the Indian accent (not as good but it's too hilarious!!!)
Bhagi Katbamna
Legend
It isn't a comedy but Monk has me bursting out laughing a few times every episode.
I'm now watching "The Thin Blue Line" season 1 episode 1, starring Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean), a British sitcom about the Police Force. It's very funny with some clever play on words and hilarious detective investigation skill.
I didn't know that in 1995 they were already fighting against credit card theft online and the police force used internet to combat the crime. I only started using online banking in around 2008.
I didn't know that in 1995 they were already fighting against credit card theft online and the police force used internet to combat the crime. I only started using online banking in around 2008.
I think The Big Bang Theory copied some ideas from Two and a Half Men: Alan had a speech impediment after teeth operation and said letter r with w (TBBT's Barry Kripke did the same speech impediment). TBBT also copied the idea of using "one Mississippi, two Mississippi" phrase.
N01E
Hall of Fame
Apart from some those the mentioned above (curb, seinfeld): Barry, Atlanta and The Rehearsal are great choices. From animated ones: Flapjack, South Park and Bojack. Harley Quinn is solid as well, but it keeps firing jokes at such rate that a lot of them don't land.
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Genious at Work
G.O.A.T.
One of my favorite all time shows. Not a comedy (I guess they would call this nowadays a dramedy or tragicomedy), but the way Tony Shalhoub portrays Adrian Monk with all the ridiculous tics and quirks of a detective suffering from OCD is brilliant, and funnier than any comedy. Randy Disher is another hilarious character as the lovable and steadfast dimwit lieutenant. Harold Krenshaw (another patient of Dr. Kroger and Monk's nemesis is also very funny). The couple of episodes with Ambrose (Monk's brother) played by John Turturro are also incredibly good, and are funny in a pathetic kind of way. This is a show that doesn't elicit an easy laughter, but a show you can laugh with because it pulls you into the personalities of the characters.
I have OCD, by the way. So maybe I find this show so engaging and funny in part because of that.
Genious at Work
G.O.A.T.
I know this is an old show, and probably crude and politically incorrect in many ways now, but England's Are You Being Served? is really funny. I used to watch it in PBS. about 20 years ago. Mostly situation and character comedy.
Sentinel
Bionic Poster
I watched that as a kid. I remember a Mrs Slocum, and an effete character whom they ragged a bit.
I found Fawlty Towers very funny back then, wonder if I'd like it today.
Purestriker
Legend
Righteous Gemstones.....funny and highly inappropriate.
Genious at Work
G.O.A.T.
I never watched Fawlty Towers. I just happened to catch Are You Being Served? by chance in PBS.
Bhagi Katbamna
Legend
While watching it, I can pre-see what Monk is going to get irritated by in the room that's the crime scene. There was an episode that I watched recently where the captain had to stay with Monk because he had an argument with his wife. I couldn't stop laughing when Monk had to re-vacuum his sitting room because the captain vacuumed the room but did it diagonally and monk needed the vacuum lines straight.
Genious at Work
G.O.A.T.
HAHA. I don't remember that one specifically. There are so many. At one point I did the "avoid the cracks in the pavement" walk (also featured in As Good As It Gets), the "touch the lit lightbulb" thing, and so many more. I've gotten much better compared to a few years ago.
Some still torment me, like drawing a perfect circle (there was one episode where Monk had to write his name on a blackboard in front of a classroom and attempted to do a perfectly circular O for his name), etc.
Bhagi Katbamna
Legend
Good to hear that you're better. I remember that episode. By the time he wrote his name on the board to his standards, the class time was over.
Genious at Work
G.O.A.T.
HAHA. Yes. Thank you.
Genious at Work
G.O.A.T.
"Crack" being the key word in describing that video.
Bhagi Katbamna
Legend
In the same episode as the vacuuming, Monk couldn't sleep unless the captain put his alarm for 8:00 instead of his usual 7:53 am. I bet one of the writers either had OCD or was taking care of someone with OCD. The writing on that TV show was so intelligent and incisive. For example: the captain kept straightening out a coffee table that was crooked and Monk kept un-straightening it. At the end, the audience finds out that the reason Monk kept it crooked was that his late wife used to put her legs on it and he'd lay his head on her lap. So during the episode the audience is laughing at his ticks and quirks but at the end, it sees how tragic the death of his wife has been for him.HAHA. Yes. Thank you.
Genious at Work
G.O.A.T.
That show was written very well indeed, you had no choice but to feel empathy for the characters. Monk could be extremely selfish at times, completely unaware of other people's needs (especially his assistants). But after a while you realized that this selfishness wasn't due to lack of empathy, but was a result of his obsessions, which caused him to lack awareness of things around him, including people (despite his uncanny ability to observe other details). Regarding his wife, that brings to mind that other episode where he shortly meets a stranger (a lady) in the street, and he becomes obsessed with her, not knowing why, until at the end it is revealed that this lady had been transplanted the corneas of his wife after she was killed.
Bhagi Katbamna
Legend
I remember that story but it is impossible to identify corneas because they are transparent. That's why they are transplanted.
Genious at Work
G.O.A.T.
Yes, I know that. And irises can't be transplanted. But it is the type of "poetic license" you can forgive because it is so neat for the story.
I just realised that both shows were created by Chuck Lorre, no wonders they used the same humour ideas.
Bhagi Katbamna
Legend
South Park Into The Panderverse was really, really, funny.
Purestriker
Legend
That was a great show. FUBAR is a good spy one too.
milk of amnesia
Legend
My Name is Earl (2005 - 2009) Show about a small-time thief who decides to mend his ways. He makes a list of all the people he has wronged and in each episdoe he tracks down one person on the list and tries to find a way to make it up to them. The show is just a riot. Jamie Pressly as Joy Turner and Dale Dickey as Patty the daytime hooker are hilarious.
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